So, They Were the Protagonists All Along

The forbidden ancient road in the forbidden area can be said to be the core inheritance of the forbidden area, and the rules of the entire forbidden area are based on it.

After today's hunting activity ended, the Great Elder accepted the magic crystals from the candidates and poured them into a piece of jade.

After an unknown length of silence, an endless stretch of white jade steps appeared in everyone's field of vision like an unreal mirage.

Each step seems to contain a different Taoist charm, which is quite strange.

This staircase is also called the Forbidden Ancient Road.

No one knows where it leads.

But all tribesmen know very well that the forbidden ancient road is the key to inheriting the rules of the restricted area.

It can only be manifested when the restricted area is selected.

The first person to participate in this forbidden ancient road was the first person in this hunting event, Ye Lingxuan.

At this moment, the face of the girl in a purple skirt was extremely calm. The gorgeous purple skirt made her figure more slender and slender.

Under the gazes of all the tribesmen, the girl took a shallow breath.

She has been waiting for this day for too long.

Now not only her mother, she could even feel that even her father, who was in retreat, seemed to be secretly paying attention to her somewhere.

In addition, there is Brother Mu...

Speaking of which, where did Brother Mu go?

The girl suddenly realized that Mu Zhian did not seem to be found nearby.

"Brother Mu, didn't you come with me?" Ye Lingxuan found the reincarnated queen in the crowd and asked through a message.

The woman was silent for a moment, and then immediately sent a message: "It's not too late for the master to pass this final test before talking about this."

Ye Lingxuan frowned slightly. For some reason, she suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart. She immediately wanted to take out the Lock of Desolate Time to confirm Mu Zhian's current whereabouts.

The reincarnated queen reminded her expressionlessly: "Miss, don't do anything unrelated to the assessment now. You have waited hard for this day. Do you want to give up midway?"

"After you have completed the assessment, I will tell you everything about today."

When Ye Lingxuan heard this, she could only silently put the Lock of Desolate Time back into her sleeves, already guessing something in her heart.

If I remember correctly, Brother Mu just went to the sky loft. Qingdi, Bai Ruoxi and Sister Mengrou were all there... Logically speaking, if the three of them were there, they shouldn't do anything to Brother Mu.

But the complicated look on the reincarnated queen's face just now seemed a little subtle...

But it doesn't matter anymore.

When the final assessment of this restricted area is over, she will have control over the rules of the restricted area, and she will have the capital to compete for the cake!

Ye Lingxuan gathered her thoughts and took the first step up the steps.

The first, originally ordinary step lit up with golden brilliance, as if it was lit up. The brilliant golden glow shot out, dazzling and dazzling.

The end of this forbidden ancient road is the power of rules. At present, countless tribesmen in the restricted area want to know how far this young lady can reach.

The second step was successfully passed.

Then comes the third and fourth steps...

There was almost no obstacle. Ye Lingxuan reached the tenth step as easily as climbing an ordinary staircase.

boom……

There was a roar that seemed to have been brewing for a long time in the restricted area. The ancient fairy sound echoed in the restricted area and the void shook.

The rules of the forbidden area have aroused the awareness of Tiandao. This existence that seems to have self-awareness seems to be aware that the change of power in the forbidden area is taking place at this moment.

At this moment, countless tribesmen and elders in the restricted area were alarmed, and their eyes were fixed on the girl's figure.

Not only Ye Lingxuan can climb this forbidden ancient road, but all disciples in the clan who meet the candidate requirements can try it.

However, most disciples have reached their limit at the tenth step. When they want to move forward, the Forbidden Ancient Road refuses them.

If they take one step forward after being rejected, their physical body will be shattered, and even their spiritual consciousness may be damaged.

After all, not everyone can control these restricted area rules.

Even after the original restricted area, it only stopped on the fourteenth floor.

The owner of the restricted area has reached the sixteenth floor!

In the sky attic, Mu Zhian looked at the direction where the forbidden ancient road emerged from a distance, and exclaimed: "The rules of the restricted area are related to this step. The higher the step you climb, the more rules you can control... You said, How far can Sister Lingxuan go?"

Yao Meng came to Mu Zhian's side at some unknown time. She also raised her head and stared. There was a rich aura gushing out from the forbidden ancient road. The fairy charm filled the air, as if the woman's green hair was rendered into pale gold. There is quite an ethereal feeling of becoming an immortal and ascending to immortality.

"The reincarnated queen can be said to be the previous master of the restricted area, but she seemed to have only reached the seventeenth floor before stopping. Ye Lingxuan... should be the same as her."

Bai Ruoxi said, glancing at the young man faintly, knowing that he must have sensed the 'danger', so he deliberately changed the subject.

But she did not be the first to reveal the truth, but said: "Someone once said in the past that the forbidden ancient road in the Nine Forbidden Lands is the closest road to the way of heaven, so the higher you climb, the higher the steps. The closer you are to the way of heaven, the more power of rules you can control."

"Natural spirits are loved by heaven and earth, so the restricted area has used natural spirits as the standard for selecting saints and sons in recent years."

"I think that with a perfect natural spirit like Sister Lingxuan, she may be able to surpass the former reincarnated queen and reach the eighteenth floor."

Mu Zhian showed a thoughtful look, but in fact he was secretly relieved.

He had a cold sweat on his back without realizing it.

From the moment he stepped into this heavenly palace, Mu Zhian realized that the fish in his pond might have known what happened between him and the will of heaven that night.

The reason why no one was the first to expose it was probably because they didn't want to give others an advantage.

After all, they only had this suspicion now, not really sure.

Whoever opened his mouth first at this time, if it was later discovered that Mu Zhian had no relationship with the will of heaven, that person would immediately be criticized by the other two present, saying that she did not trust her Taoist partner or something like that...

Therefore, a delicate balance was formed between the three of them at the moment.

It is said that the triangle is the most stable, and the ancients were not wrong...

At this time, Ye Qian stepped forward and gently wiped Mu Zhian's forehead with a handkerchief, and said with concern: "Brother Mu, why are you sweating all over? Did something happen when you went to the outer edge of the restricted area with your sister just now?"

Sister Qian'er, do you want me to die? !

A little soul in Mu Zhian's heart was growling, and he felt something was wrong.

When there were three people on the scene, the situation was still in a delicate balance.

But the appearance of Ye Qian at this moment completely broke this balance.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Yao Meng observed the young man with a pair of bright green eyes, and couldn't help but chuckled: "It's true... Why is my husband sweating all over?"

With sincere concern in her eyes, she even wiped the cold sweat on Mu Zhian's forehead with a handkerchief.

"Young Master is already a cultivator at the Enlightenment Realm. He won't break out in cold sweats like an ordinary person, unless he has done something wrong." Wei Mengrou suddenly added a knife.

Bai Ruoxi's beautiful eyes were gentle, and she asked with concern: "Mu Lang, are you okay?"

Mu Zhian was panicking, but he still had a gentle smile on his face: "It's okay... I'm just a little worried about Sister Lingxuan."

If he was close to any woman, Mu Zhian wouldn't be so worried about being exposed.

After all, everyone present knew that Mu Zhian was an LSP, and they all knew it tacitly.

However, that person was Tiandao, the gathering of the consciousness of the creatures in Jiuzhou!

In the past, Tiandao had secretly tripped Mu Zhian more than once.

As a result, he turned around and entangled with the incarnation of Tiandao's will...

But Mu Zhian had no choice. At that time, the enlightenment tribulation was about to fail. The only way he could think of was to try to corrupt Tiandao's will with the natural furnace.

In the end, he did succeed... but Tiandao's will also entangled him.

It was all helpless... Mu Zhian sighed secretly. If there were any other way, he would not sell his body.

He couldn't let his fish pond fight with the will of heaven, could he? He was a pacifist. Fighting and killing was not good. If anyone was injured, he would feel bad.

So he could only sell himself without telling the fish.

Boom...

Fortunately, at this time, accompanied by a loud bang, the dusk in the restricted area dimmed in an instant, and attracted everyone's attention.

Ye Lingxuan finally stopped when she stepped on the seventeenth step.

It was difficult to advance any further!

Even the most perfect natural spirit in the restricted area could only reach the seventeenth floor, and it would not be possible to get even a little closer!

This was the limit that the restricted area rules could control. Not only the Dongzhou restricted area, but also the ancient creatures in the major forbidden areas could only control about 90% of the forbidden area rules.

Most of the ancient creatures were said to have climbed the steps between the thirteenth and seventeenth floors.

Because going up, the heavenly way did not allow it.

The rules of the nine forbidden areas are actually the variation of the rules of heaven and earth, but they are also close to the way of heaven.

The way of heaven is ruthless, and no one in this world can get close to the way of heaven.

Mu Zhian looked up.

Ye Lingxuan was standing on the 17th step at this moment. She tried to step on the 18th step with difficulty several times, but she could not get even a little closer.

To outsiders, the girl seemed to be just climbing the steps very normally, but for Ye Lingxuan, the power of rules in this forbidden ancient road was almost like a tsunami, overwhelming and oppressive. The power of rules was filled with the breath of heaven, which made people almost breathless, as if their spiritual consciousness was about to collapse.

At this moment, not only Ye Lingxuan, but also the elders and disciples under the forbidden ancient road felt the incomparably sacred breath of heaven.

Although the breath of heaven was gentle, it made people feel the urge to kneel down.

Even Yao Meng and others who were far away in the attic in the sky could not help but frown.

Although he was beyond the rules of heaven and earth, even the Yuhua Realm felt this terrifying sense of oppression.

Among the people present, there was only one exception.

Mu Zhian.

He didn't know whether it was because he had once been close to the will of heaven or what, at this moment when everyone felt the pressure, Mu Zhian didn't feel the slightest bit of oppression.

He discovered that the forbidden ancient road did not repel him, but had a natural affinity with him.

But everyone had previously suspected whether he had anything to do with the will of heaven... Now if he goes to the Forbidden Ancient Road, this matter can almost be confirmed.

After that, he might be thrown into a small dark room for ‘torture’…

Mu Zhian silently raised his head and stared at the forbidden ancient road.

At this moment, the entire forbidden ancient road was emitting a brilliant golden light, as sacred as the dazzling sun, and also dyed Ye Lingxuan's purple dress with a charming golden light.

Her hair was blowing in the wind, and she tried to raise her feet several times to get closer, but she put them down several times.

If she takes even half a step forward, her spiritual consciousness may completely collapse.

"Is this the way of heaven? I obviously don't want anyone to get close to it, but I deliberately set up a test to show my fairness."

Bai Ruoxi raised her head and stared at this scene, her beautiful eyebrows frowning slightly.

"The majesty of Heaven is inviolable, and it is naturally impossible for it to allow any creature in this world to approach itself. I now have reason to believe that the nine taboo places in Kyushu may really be the handiwork of Heaven." Yao Meng said faintly.

Wei Mengrou also raised her head and stared with a bit of regret in her eyes.

Judging from the current situation, if you step on the twenty-level stairs, I am afraid that the rules of the entire restricted area will not be under the control of Tiandao in the future.

However, Tiandao did not intend to let things escape its control from the beginning.

No one in the world can come close to it, let alone be on equal footing with it.

Otherwise, Ye Lingxuan may be able to create history and make the Dongzhou restricted area a pure land in the true sense.

Just as Wei Mengrou was thinking about this, she suddenly seemed to notice something and looked at Mu Zhian, who was quietly turning the furnace.

"Where do you want to go?" she asked subconsciously.

Yao Meng and Bai Ruoxi also looked at him.

Ye Qian also looked directly at the young man and said hesitantly: "Brother Mu...?"

Mu Zhian smiled: "I'll be right back."

…

At this moment, there was a commotion in the restricted area.

Many young talents frowned slightly and stared at the saint on the white jade steps.

Although other candidates have not yet boarded this forbidden ancient road, almost the entire forbidden area has already acquiesced. The forbidden ancient road that Ye Lingxuan has traveled will be the limit that the forbidden area people can reach.

But now, even the saint stopped at the seventeenth step of this ancient road, unable to make any further progress.

This means that even this saint can only master about 90% of the rules of the restricted area.

"Even the young lady can't reach the twentieth floor. It seems that the rumors in the past are true." A tribesman sighed secretly.

In the past, there was a rumor circulating in the forbidden area, that is, the end of this ancient road is the way of heaven, and the way of heaven does not allow anything in this world to escape its control.

Reaching the twentieth floor means that the rules of the restricted area are completely out of the control of Heavenly Dao and become its own line.

This is something that neither heaven, earth nor man can allow.

"Even the young lady can only go to the seventeenth floor and cannot go beyond it... This is probably what Heaven has set from the beginning."

The elder of the clan sighed softly. Although he had already guessed the result before the final test in the restricted area began, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

The law of heaven cannot be violated. Even the natural spiritual energy that is naturally close to the spiritual energy cannot step into the twentieth floor and control the power of all rules in the restricted area.

At this moment, countless eyes were looking at this forbidden ancient road, as well as Ye Lingxuan, who had been standing on the seventeenth floor for an unknown amount of time, and his forehead was already covered with sweat.

She obviously noticed the gazes of the clansmen and clan elders below the forbidden ancient road. Almost everyone who had great expectations for her could not help but feel a little disappointed at this moment.

This is not a loss for her, but a despair for this ancient road.

Even the most perfect natural spirit cannot reach the end of the forbidden ancient road, so who can do it?

At the end of the crowd, a man with a stern face and a black robe was standing there quietly, looking at his daughter.

Ye Lingxuan glanced at her father under the forbidden ancient road, and seemed to see trust in the man's eyes.

For some unknown reason, Ye Lingxuan's body burst out with an unprecedented power. The spiritual energy in the restricted area was absorbed by her at that moment. The mixed spiritual energy was eliminated in an instant and turned into the power in her cauldron.

She took another step.

The eighteenth floor!

The limit that this forbidden ancient road can theoretically reach!

The sweat on the girl's forehead continued to fall to the ground. She seemed to have collapsed and sat on the steps with one leg, and a strand of hair stuck to her delicate face.

At this moment, the girl can feel that the entire restricted area seems to be under her control. As long as she moves her fingers, she can do whatever she wants in the restricted area.

Rotten trees can be reborn with the movement of a finger, and lush ancient trees can also be easily allowed to decay.

This is the power of rules.

"Miss, you have tried your best...come back."

"Yes... the eighteenth floor has surpassed everyone's record in the restricted area. That's enough."

I don’t know who opened the door first. Then, the voices of the tribesmen sounded. Everyone knew that their saint had tried her best. There seemed to be only two steps left, but it was like ascending to the sky. It simply cannot be done.

No one has successfully passed through the twenty-level forbidden ancient road in any of the forbidden places in Jiuzhou.

Because if you go up further, there is a risk of spiritual consciousness collapse.

After the restricted area, she looked at her daughter with distress in her eyes. She opened her mouth slightly and was about to send a message to Ye Lingxuan.

But at this time, the Lord of the restricted area pulled his wife and shook his head gently at her.

The man stared at the front quietly with a majestic look.

After the restricted area, he looked along the trend and only then found that there was one more person on this forbidden ancient road.

He walked up from the first level of the forbidden ancient road, and walked towards Ye Lingxuan step by step without any obstacles.

This scene made everyone's eyes widen, and some were unbelievable.

"Mu Zhian? Why can he also walk the forbidden ancient road of my restricted area?!"

"Doesn't he have the blood of the restricted area? Why..."

Including a group of elders, they were a little dazed and looked at this scene in astonishment.

After the forbidden area, she subconsciously looked at her husband: "You don't seem surprised at all?"

The Lord of the forbidden area stared at the young man who was walking on the forbidden ancient road with a deep gaze, and said softly: "Since he could accept the test of the reincarnation pool at the beginning, it is not impossible for him to walk on the forbidden ancient road now."

But when he said this, the man's heart was also full of doubts.

Among all the people present, only he knew best that the rules of the forbidden area were actually more related to the way of heaven.

It was reasonable that Mu Zhian could accept the test of the reincarnation pool at the beginning, but why could he set foot on this forbidden ancient road now?

Ye Lingxuan panted lightly, and beads of sweat slid down her forehead. Although the girl's eyes were extremely firm, she knew it in her heart.

The eighteenth level of the forbidden ancient road was already her limit.

The longest road that had been walked in any forbidden place in Jiuzhou was only here.

But the girl was still a little unwilling in her heart.

For a girl who has never experienced any failure since she was a child, she never thought that she would not be able to walk this forbidden ancient road completely.

Even in the test of the reincarnation pool, she reached the ultimate perfection.

But this forbidden ancient road can only go here.

At this moment, Ye Lingxuan seemed to feel that at the end of the forbidden ancient road, a high and mighty god was looking down at all living beings indifferently, and his emotionless eyes were full of ridicule.

This forbidden ancient road is a test of the heavenly way. As long as you reach the end, the rules of the forbidden area will completely escape from the nine states.

Countless tribesmen in the forbidden area are working hard for this day.

But maybe this test was a scam from the beginning.

After the rules are set, the heavenly way itself must abide by the rules.

But the heavenly way had changed this game to a rule that was destined to be impossible for people to pass long before that.

Now even Ye Lingxuan can only stop at the eighteenth floor.

The mysterious Dao rhyme, wrapped in complex runes, quietly spread down from the 20th floor of the stairs. Ye Lingxuan felt that the runes were constantly bombarding her spiritual consciousness and driving her away.

As if saying: You can only go here, not beyond.

This is the "pity" of heaven to the world. As long as you abide by the rules it has set, you will still be the future queen of the restricted area and can still be with your brother Mu.

One more step up, the spiritual consciousness will completely collapse.

The strong sleepiness continued to erode Ye Lingxuan's will at this time. Her eyes kept closing and opening, trying hard to resist giving up this test.

The girl pursed her lips tightly and never wavered.

In a trance, she felt like she had a dream.

One day, a long, long time ago, she was held by a boy's hand, and the palm was warm and reassuring.

In a forest in Dongzhou, the sun shone through the lush branches and leaves, the wind moved the leaves, and the colorful light and shadows moved on the ground.

The boy holding her hand suddenly said: "Sister Lingxuan, the arrow of heaven has locked me."

"I can only go so far with you."

She was still in the period of young girl's love and asked him in confusion: "Where is Brother Mu going? By the way, Brother Mu, I'm hungry and want to eat something."

The boy was silent for a long time, and smiled gently: "Okay, wait for me to come back."

Ye Lingxuan sat in the forest and waited, but the boy never came back.

She couldn't accept this fact, until she waited from day to sunset, and finally began to cry.

But crying seemed to be useless. In the past, when she cried, the boy would always appear in time and comfort her gently, but now no one could comfort her.

Later, a member of the Ye tribe found her and wanted to take her back to the tribe. She asked the tribe members about the whereabouts of Mu Zhian, but the tribe members seemed to have lost their memory and completely forgot about Mu Zhian.

The tribe members even suspected that the young lady had hallucinations.

Until the night when she returned to her tribe in despair, a woman appeared in front of her.

The woman said, go and reincarnate.

You will definitely wait for him in the future.

When she was a girl, Ye Lingxuan didn't understand anything, but she thought that woman was so powerful. She seemed to know everything and could do everything. It seemed that there was nothing in the world that could stump her.

So the girl was born with a good impression of that woman.

But she could never remember the woman's face.

The woman in her memory was very vague, but very beautiful.

After reincarnating nine times, she became the daughter of the Lord of the Forbidden Zone. One day, her father took her to Liangyi Sect to visit the Lord.

That was the first time that the Forbidden Zone Princess, whose talent was superior to that of other geniuses, had a good impression of a woman she had just met. She even blindly worshipped and liked her for no reason.

There was no reason, she just had a good impression of that woman and thought she was so beautiful.

Ye Lingxuan had never thought about why in the past.

Until this moment, she finally understood.

Because she vaguely remembered that it was this woman who told her how to find her brother Mu.

Ye Lingxuan suddenly felt a hand holding her hand from behind.

She suddenly woke up and opened her eyes suddenly.

The young man in a white robe had appeared behind her at some point. Climbing to the eighteenth floor was also a great test for his furnace. He lost a lot of spiritual energy, so his face was a little pale, but he had the same gentle smile as always.

"Brother Mu, why are you here?!" Ye Lingxuan suddenly woke up and widened her eyes in disbelief.

"Follow me." Mu Zhian said softly.

In the dead silence, countless eyes stared at this scene.

Mu Zhian took Ye Lingxuan's hand and walked up the 19th step unwaveringly.

The 20th floor!

Standing on the 20th floor, Ye Lingxuan's face was extremely pale, and her forehead was full of sweat. She could feel that she had really reached her limit.

At this time, Mu Zhian let go of her hand.

Then, she heard a gentle voice in her ear as usual: "Go."

"I can only go so far with you."

After inheriting the position of the Queen of the Forbidden Zone, he no longer had anything to help Ye Lingxuan.

In a trance, Ye Lingxuan seemed to have returned to the lush forest again, and vaguely remembered what happened in the first life.

The sunset burned the clouds red.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Ye Lingxuan slowly closed her eyes, feeling the power of rules intertwined in her body.

Her dress seemed to be flaming in the setting sun, making her figure look particularly slender and sacred.

You can only accompany me up to this point.

But from now on, we can go the rest of the way together.

Ye Lingxuan slowly opened her eyes, and in the setting sun, her gorgeous purple eyes seemed to be flowing with a majestic golden luster.

Behind her, there were complex Dao patterns intertwined and entangled, creating a vision of the stars moving.

The first queen of the restricted area who perfectly controlled the power of rules was born.